versification
English
noun
Definitions
- (poetry) The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
- (biblical) The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses
Etymology
Suffix from English verse.
Origin
English
verse
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- midverse English
- mono-verse English
- nonverse English
- underverse English
- verse English
- verselet English
- versemaker English
- versemaking English
- verseman English
- versemonger English
- verser English
- versesmith English
- verset English
- versus Latin
- Vers German
- wiersz Polish
- vers Middle English
- véarsa Irish
- ivesi Zulu